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25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
AS GERMANY MARKS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, GORBACHEV WARNS OF NEW COLD WAR
As germany marks fall of the berlin wall gorbachev warns of new cold war... READ MORE›
MI5 ACCUSED OF COVERING UP SEXUAL ABUSE AT BOYS HOME
A Home Office spokesperson said The government is cooperating fully with all investigations into allegations relating to the Kincora boys home... READ MORE›
SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
SKEPTICISM CONFUSION OVER AUSTRALIA SUBMARINE TENDER PLEDGE
Speaking in Sochi, Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that a Wednesday meeting would require agreement between Russia and the West on key points beforehand... READ MORE›
EAST GERMAN OFFICER HARALD JAEGER EXPLAINS WHY HE OPENED THE BERLIN WALL
Within hours East Germans were dancing on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and other border crossings soon opened... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: GOOGLE COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIDEO DOODLE
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S RUSSOPHOBIC HAWKS SHOULD BE CAST BACK TO SWINGING 60S IF WE WANT NEW EAST-WEST DETENTE
It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
GERMANS SEE ALMOST NO PROGRESS ON EAST-WEST UNITY IN THE PAST 7 YEARS STUDY SAYS
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
A SOVIET DOUBLE AGENTS CREDO DENY EVERYTHING
Mr. Philby disappeared in January 1963 and emerged in Moscow about six months later... READ MORE›
GERMANS HAVE BEEN REFUGEES BEFORE - THEY SEE THEMSELVES IN THESE SYRIANS
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
HELMUT SCHMIDT DIES; WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR WAS TRANSFORMATIVE LEADER
Mr. Schmidt and West Germany in the mid-'70s were strongly pro-American... READ MORE›
'NO REGRETS' SAYS MAN WHO AIDED DOUBLE AGENT GEORGE BLAKE TO ESCAPE
He escaped with the help of two radical anti-nuclear campaigners, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle, and an Irishman, Sean Bourke... READ MORE›
WERNER STILLER, EAST GERMAN SPY AND DEFECTOR, DIES AT 69
The defection roiled the spy agency 17 of its agents were convicted in the West and at least 15 were called back to East Germany... READ MORE›
EGON BAHR WHO LAID GROUNDWORK FOR GERMAN REUNIFICATION DIES AT 93
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
WEST BERLIN RECALLS 'ISLAND' OF FREEDOM THAT VANISHED WITH WALL
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
RUSSIANS STILL REGRET USSR COLLAPSE, BUT BELIEVE RESTORATION UNREALISTIC
As years go by our citizens get firmer in their opinion that the Soviet Union could have been saved... READ MORE›
HEINZ KESSLER WHO LED EAST GERMANYS MILITARY DIES AT 97
BERLIN -- Heinz Kessler, a former head of East Germany's armed forces and a die-hard Communist to the last, died on May 2 in eastern Berlin... READ MORE›
THE OTHER TIME MOSCOW WENT TO FIGHT FOR AN EMBATTLED ARAB LEADER
However, like many conflicts of the era, the Soviet Union played a role, too... READ MORE›
GUENTHER SCHABOWSKI, MAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY OPENED BERLIN WALL, DIES AT 86
Schabowski, a member of and spokesman for the Soviet bloc state's ruling Politburo, was speaking at an otherwise dull news conference on Nov... READ MORE›
MEET YOSIF STALIN, A CHILD OF THE USSR LIVING IN KREMLIN, VIRGINIA
'Nobody calls me Stalin' Yosif was not the first child of an African-American to be born in the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
CHERNOBYL: TIMELINE OF A NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE
4 at Chernobyl's nuclear power station in the former Soviet Union... READ MORE›
SCHABOWSKI, MAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY SPILLED NEWS OF BERLIN WALL OPENING, DIES
Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, has died at the age... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE TOUCHES DOWN IN AUSTRALIA
Perth Airport spokeswoman Fiona Lander explained the reasoning behind the layovers... READ MORE›
ONCE HITLER'S PRIZED FLIGHT HUB AND BERLIN AIRLIFT SYMBOL, TEMPELHOF SET TO HOUSE REFUGEES
Once hitler's prized flight hub and berlin airlift symbol tempelhof set to house refugees... READ MORE›
MARGOT HONECKER, UNREPENTANT WIDOW OF EAST GERMANY'S LAST LEADER, DIES AT 89
During the early 1950s, she had an affair with Erich Honecker, a leading Communist Party official who was married at the time... READ MORE›
GUENTER SCHABOWSKI, MAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY OPENED BERLIN WALL, DIES
Berlin Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall before it was official, has died aged 86... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL HAILS HISTORIC MOMENT 25 YEARS AGO AS PROOF TO THE WORLD THAT DREAMS CAN COME TRUE
She also honoured the many who suffered under the communist regime, including the 138 people who died at the Wall... READ MORE›